Hey, my name is Ben and I am Canadian. As you know, my mom, brother and myself are going on a trip! Now this is not going to be a holiday, well some parts of it will. Sounds like we will be doing a lot of work just to get to a toilet in India! The things that I am going to enjoy is learning how to surf!!! My only fear is the wild monkeys in India. For some reason I just don’t like small animals like dog’s or cat’s or monkey's because they can be nippy and steal your food right out your hand! I am going to want to buy so many things like an x-box, souvenirs, etc. It is so cheap in Asia that you can get 2 jumbo chocolate bars for 25c Canadian! That’s crazy!!! But spoiler alert!!! We can’t because we are only taking “carry on”! (this means really small backpacks that fit under our feet and in the lockers above our head on planes). But we don’t have to bring much because it will be hot everywhere we’ll go! I am really excited to go to New Zealand and Australia and can't wait to meet the rest of my family. I am happy to go to the country that The Hobbit was filmed in as well! And I can't wait to hang with Nana at her place on the beach. And go to "surfing school!"

Perhaps some of you have been on plane trips that were 3-6 hours long. Well I bet you haven’t been on a plane for 18 hours at a time!!!! Oh, and by the way, I am spending my b-day on a beautiful beach in Thailand! We are going to be doing community work around Nepal as well. That will be very different for us. I am also very excited to see Mt. Everest from a plane (hope it’s not a rainy day!).

I am a big fan of video taking and picture editing so I will be posting videos on the blog as well. When my mom said there was going to be no school for six months, I was partying like crazy! But then I remembered that I would not see any of my friends for 5 months either. I am going to miss them very much while I will be gone.

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